Manic Metallic is very excited to unveil a new project that we’ve been developing for the past month. Meet: The Sustainability Wing: A Project Of Manic Metallic The Sustainability Wing: A Project Of Manic Metallic (or, The Sustainability Wing, for a shortened version) came about as a result of our team realizing the increasing…
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We’re over halfway through Paris Haute Couture Week Spring/Summer 2021 and, while we’ve been wowed by some collections, we’ve been underwhelmed with others. We decided to do a 30-second review on each of the shows for everyone. In each of these videos, we give our Top 5 Looks from each collection along with the…
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Paris Haute Couture Week’s Spring/Summer 2021 presentations started today (1/25), and will last through Thursday (1/28). As is to be expected during the Covid-19 era, no shows are allowed to have guests. This means that the vast majority of shows that have elected to remain on the Haute Couture schedule will be shown via…
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In honor of the United States presidential inauguration that occurred a couple of days ago (January 20th), we decided to take a look at presidential fashion over the years – and it brought up plenty of questions as we got deeper into our research. But first, here are our findings on the sartorial choices…
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Video c/o SHOWstudio Fashion films have recently gone from being a nice-to-have for fashion designers and brands to being a must during the pandemic era. However, these short videos didn’t crop up overnight. In fact, they have been used with regularity since the year 2000 – the inception of fashion photographer and filmmaker Nick…
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According to our publication’s About page, Manic Metallic is: “a fashion publication that aims, first and foremost, to critique fashion as an art and respect it as a discipline. We take fashion seriously, yet we allow for fun to be had within that seriousness. We want to bring the emphasis back to the fashion…
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Our first twelve female photographers for our series on accomplished women in the profession have each had a historic impact on fashion photography as a discipline and, in many cases, photography in general. In this article, we will preview our profile on each photographer while inviting you to check out the full profile on…
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Where Are The Women? In an earlier article, we’d referred to the fact that fashion designers receiving great amounts of attention and accolades in the industry are overwhelmingly male – despite this being an industry whose customer base is predominantly female. We’d like to build on that assertion using fashion photography as an example.…
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Surely, you’ve seen the articles. The ones that proclaim that New York is dead forever, like this unfortunate piece by author and entrepreneur James Altucher. The question has seeped into every news source, every social media platform – and many conversations that we have with our friends and close associates. And we know why…
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London Fashion Week, with regards to time, was a couple of days longer than New York Fashion Week. Somehow, though, there didn’t seem to be as many fashion shows/films/presentations/’however the designer chose to present’ as NYFW had. However, London’s shows and designs did not lack quality. Liberty, our founder, took in the shows and…
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